Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.